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Asian Americans: South Bay/Los Angeles Nisei
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Issei (first generation immigrants) and their Nisei children were well established in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County. Some raised fruit, vegetables and flowers on undeveloped land that they rented or farmed as sharecroppers. Others formed cooperatives or corporations to...
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(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Issei (first generation immigrants) and their Nisei children were well established in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County. Some raised fruit, vegetables and flowers on undeveloped land that they rented or farmed as sharecroppers. Others formed cooperatives or corporations to sell and distribute produce while still others started small businesses to serve Japanese and other residents in the area.
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Ethnic groups, Law, Politics, War, World War II, 1939-1945, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945
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California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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Nami Nakashima Diaz
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Nami Nakashima Diaz lived most of her life in Signal Hill. Although she was born in Long Beach, her family moved to Signal Hill while she was a little girl. She remembers the hill as an agricultural area covered with flowers, vegetables and fruit until oil was discovered. When oil was discovered under her family's...
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(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
Source: csulb-dspace.calstate.edu
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Nami Nakashima Diaz lived most of her life in Signal Hill. Although she was born in Long Beach, her family moved to Signal Hill while she was a little girl. She remembers the hill as an agricultural area covered with flowers, vegetables and fruit until oil was discovered. When oil was discovered under her family's land, they moved to west Long Beach and her father used his small income from oil to open a fertilizer business. He was successful in...
Nami Nakashima Diaz lived most of her life in Signal Hill. Although she was born in Long Beach, her family moved to Signal Hill while she was a little girl. She remembers the hill as an agricultural area covered with flowers, vegetables and fruit until oil was discovered. When oil was discovered under her family's land, they moved to west Long Beach and her father used his small income from oil to open a fertilizer business. He was successful in selling Western Star Vegetable Fertilizers to Japanese farmers all over southern California. Diaz graduated from high school and continued studying violin and playing in the Long Beach Women's Symphony until she married.
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Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Economics, Environment, Labor force, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945, World War II, 1939-1945
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Mas Shono
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Mas Shono, one of eight children, grew up on Terminal Island in a traditional Japanese family. His father was the skipper of a chartered fishing boat. Like the other children, he attended Japanese language school, and he couldn't speak English when he started grammar school. After Pearl Harbor the family moved to...
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(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
Source: csulb-dspace.calstate.edu
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Mas Shono, one of eight children, grew up on Terminal Island in a traditional Japanese family. His father was the skipper of a chartered fishing boat. Like the other children, he attended Japanese language school, and he couldn't speak English when he started grammar school. After Pearl Harbor the family moved to Oxnard, where he was one of the only Japanese children in school. After the war, he family returned to Long Beach, where he attended Po...
Mas Shono, one of eight children, grew up on Terminal Island in a traditional Japanese family. His father was the skipper of a chartered fishing boat. Like the other children, he attended Japanese language school, and he couldn't speak English when he started grammar school. After Pearl Harbor the family moved to Oxnard, where he was one of the only Japanese children in school. After the war, he family returned to Long Beach, where he attended Polytechnic High School.
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Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Ethnic groups, Politics, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945, World War II, 1939-1945
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